A view from the terraces
Football Hooligans
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Building Castells in the city air
The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory
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Demoting the ruler of shaky kingdom
Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action - The Government of Risk
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a cultural theorist with psychoanalytical tendencies: "One of the most deplorable aspects of...
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Knitting a tale of the search for a truth
A Trial by Jury
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Capitalism with a dash of clarity
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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How to deal with the displaced
Risks and Reconstruction
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Research without the jargon
Surveying the Social World
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Laurie Taylor column
For: THES From: Professor G. Lapping Dear Sir, I discovered a reference in last week's THES to your current editor's impending departure. May I wish Auriol Stevens a happy retirement. She will, as...
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Leader: Expensive new students need more resources
Our analysis of the easiest and hardest British universities to get into shows that there is indeed an elite group of institutions whose members are successful at attracting both research funding and...
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Leader: Painful streamlining is not the solution for SA
It is eight years since South Africa's return to democracy and the beginning of the reconstruction process that promised so much to the country's oppressed majority. But the process of transformation...
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In brief 1
The choice of a drag-queen cover ( THES , May 24) as a precursor to a comment in Ian Wilmut's book review about a hypothetical, eugenic "cure" for homosexuality is tabloidesque. Drag queens are a...
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In brief 2
What a narrow, unforgiving view of humanity James Tooley has if people must depress personal attributes to fit a definition of their ascribed gender role ( THES , May 17, 24, 31). The way forward is...
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In brief 3
The Race Relations (Amendment) Act is the best chance we've ever had to push through the culture change needed to make equal opportunities a reality in the sector (News, THES , May 31). Bill Gulam is...
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Boycott betrayal 1
Most staff probably know little of the "academic boycott" organised against Israeli universities ("Historian fears for academic freedom in Israel", THES , May 17). But on a recent visit to Israel,...